Permanent draft genome sequence of Comamonas testosteroni KF-1

Standards in Genomic Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 239-254

  Weiss, Michael ^a   Kesberg, Anna I ^a   Labutti, Kurt M ^b   Pitluck, Sam ^b   Bruce, David ^c   Hauser, Loren ^d   Copeland, Alex ^b   Woyke, Tanja ^b   Lowry, Stephen ^b   Lucas, Susan ^b   Land, Miriam ^d   Goodwin, Lynne ^b,c   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^e   Cook, Alasdair M ^a   Buhmann, Matthias ^a   Thomas, Torsten ^e   Schleheck, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; DNA ISOLATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI;

EID: 84879368654     PISSN: 19443277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4056/sigs.3847890     Document Type: Article

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